Nursing Associate - Learning Disability/Autism - Hospital@Home

Job summary

Would you like to work in an innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service?

Are you interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families, as an alternative to hospital admission?

Are you keen to work with highly motivated and passionate colleagues?

The Learning Disability and Autism (LDA) Hospital at Home team are looking for a Registered Nursing Associate to join their team. You must have already completed or be nearing completion of your Nursing Associate Foundation Degree in order to be eligible to apply for this role.

LDA Hospital at Home is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.

In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team, shortening their inpatient admission. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.

Main duties of the job

As the LDA Nursing Associate in the team you will have a breadth of knowledge across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centred care and support for young people up to 18 years old and in a variety of settings.

Your base will be in the new offices in the Meadow Unit on the Warneford site, there also will be planned visits within the community across the Thames Valley collaborative area. you will be required to work flexibly, whilst planned between the hours of 8am-8pm.

The role will assist the registered nursing staff (Band 5 and above) and other health professionals to deliver a wide range of nursing interventions including the care and treatment of multiple mental health illness' , young people that may have a learning disability and/ or autism and social vulnerability. It requires strong all-round capability, insights and adaptability in physical and mental health, as well as organisational, communication and inter-personal skills.

By managing the care pathway, we will be able to ensure that children and young people are cared for in an inpatient setting or via an 'out of hospital' service as close to home as possible. This will:

Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances

Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams

Encourage early therapeutic home leave

Minimise Length of Stay

Avoid admission

About us

The LDA Hospital at Home team are currently recruiting our multi-disciplinary team (MDT), we are a specialist service working with patients up to 18 years old, who are at risk of admission due to mental health difficulties.

Should you wish to discuss the role in more detail ahead of making an application please contact the modern matron, Penny Foley

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team".

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent".

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job description

Job responsibilities

- Work on a shared caseload for the team and to be supervised by a registered Nurse- Record own work on electronic patient records Rio- Contribute to Nursing assessments Initial Assessments, Nursing Assessments, etc. (including writing and sharing nursing formulations and nursing recommendations with relevant people- Contribute to the design and implementation of clinical interventions including care planning.- Monitoring and feeding back on the physical and mental well-being of service users, including escalation of care needs when necessary.- Signposting to and working in collaboration with appropriate health services, inpatient and community-based support. Liaising with other professionals outside the immediate MDT including GPs, hospital departments doctors and nurses, social care, education etc.- Deliver, under supervision, specific therapeutic interventions to meet the physical, emotional and psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of individuals and carers.- Arrange patient & carer monitoring visits and attend, as part of a planned package of care- Discuss and explain a plan of care with patients and families or carers including the use of Easy Read information.- Write and review care plans under supervision from a registered Nurse and update electronic care records. ( Rio)- Create and update Patient held Care records Health action plans, hospital passports etc.- Undertake Health Education work impact of mental health illness on overall wellbeing and support for individuals and families on recognising signs, symptoms and ongoing triggers.- Monitoring patient medication concordance. Educating patients re possible side effects and monitoring same. Administering of Medication in accordance with regulatory guidelines for Nursing Associates if required.- Sourcing or designing and producing Easy Read Documents- Record Keeping updating initial assessments, updating risk summaries, writing and sending closure letters to service users and their families and GPs- Supervision & Preceptorship including statutory & mandatory training, learning & development, and CPD.- Multi-Disciplinary Team working with the entire LDA hospital @home Team to deliver holistic, evidence based, assessments and interventions.

Person Specification

Knowledge requirements

Essential

Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered health or care professional

Desirable

Experience of working with people with a Learning Disability and/ or Autism

Qualifications - Academic/Skills/Professional

Essential

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.

Completion of Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Aptitude

Essential

Ability to recognise own limitations in the context of the nursing associate role

Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans

Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.

Experience

Essential

Previous experience of working with Young people or adults with a learning disability or Autism

Desirable

Significant experience within a health/care setting relevant to the role.

Previous experience of working for a larger organisation and within a Multi-disciplinary team